Austin Butler Quotes

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

I was a monster, a problem child.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.'

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.